Yes you are welcome to join @bwjones.bsky.social ! I think you would enjoy it. Let me or Becca know if you want in.

Music League belongs to all of us now!

How about launching a meme coin to fund my lab fully with anonymous donors? Is that cool?

I wasn't sure what you meant until I got to this part:

Awesome! Congratulations Needhi!

I took the “no” position. I think they have become far more annoying and pretentious than they were 15-20 years ago, but she thinks they were always this insufferable.

1) is nihilism. How could we ever know anything? And 2) we have plenty of examples of manipulating representations in ways that seem as though they would satisfy your objection. This sounds strange to us, because these issues aren't really up for debate among neuroscientists.

1) the fact that there is inference in most biological data, so it is filtered through our instruments and we can never really observe most things and 2) your contention that you can’t manipulate a neural representation with external forces.

Please correct me if I am misreading, but it sounds like you are making a legalistic argument about whether you are ontologically committed to the existence of representations based on:

I can’t believe I’m actually saying this, because I hate the terminology, but you should really have a look at the hippocampal “engram” work by Steve Ramirez and others. Checks all of T & P’s criteria in one stroke. More thoughts after I finish reading your paper.

"Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying instruments?" Also, when the vanguard of your repertoire of scientific examples is somatotopy and delay period activity in working memory tasks, maybe try reading some neuroscience from the past 40 years.

I totally agree, but all the PI's not fired trainees are now completely screwed and have to "explore reassignment options," acting as a force multiplier for the carnage.